WEBVTT COMMITMENT 20-14 TONIGHT.JACKSON-VOTERS SAID YES TOTHE ONE-PERCENT SALES-TAX-HIKE.16 WAPT'S JENNIFER ORTEGA ISLIVE IN THE NEWSROOM WITH THENUMBERS. JEN....STEPHANIE --- IT'S A LANDSLIDE.TAKE A LOOK AT THE LATESTNUMBERS...WITH 97- PERCENT OFPRECINTS REPORTING -- 90-PERCENTVORTED FOR IT --- ONLY TENAGAINST. MAYOR CHOKWE LUMUMBASAYS --- THIS IS A WIN FOR THECAPITOL CITY.THIS IS A PEOPLES VICTORY, THISIS NOT A VICTORY FOR APARTICULAR CANIDATE ORPARTICULAR PERSON, THIS IS AVICTORY FOR THE CITY OF JACKSON.THIS ONE PERCENT SALES TAXMEASURE GOES TOWARDS FIXING THECITY'S FAILING ROADS -- ANDAGING WATER SYSTEM. IT WILL BEON THE BOOKS FOR THE NEXT20-YEARS. TONIGHT -- AS MAYORLUMUMBA ADDRESSED THE PEOPLE OFJACKSON -- SUPPORTERS OF THE TAXINCREASE TALKED ABOUT IT'SIMPORTANCE.I WOULD SAY THAT QUALIFIES AS ALANDSLIDE RIGHT?THIS IS ONE SMALL STEP FORJACKSON AND ONE GIANT LEAP FORJACKSONIANS, THIS IS HUGE,ALMOST 90% OF OUR CITIZENS VOTEDTO DO WHAT MAKES TOTAL SENSE,FIX OUR CITY.I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING THATWE NEED AND THE PEOPLE HAVESPOKEN AND WE ARE SO HAPPY THEPEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN AND THATWE'VE GOT THIS THING DONE.HERE ARE THE ITEMS THAT WILLNOT BE AFFECTED BY THEONE-PERCENT INCREASE. GROCERIES,RESTAURANT-FOOD AND DRINKS,PRESCRIPTION DRUGS, GAS, HOTELROOMS, AND T-V AND INTERNETSERVICES.THERE WAS SOME CONCREN ABOUTVOTER TURNOUT. LESS THAN 8-PERCENT OF VOTERS HIT THE POLLSTODAY.JENNIFER -- WHEN DOES THE ONE-PERCENT TAX- INCREASE GO INTOEFFECT?THE DEPARTMENT OF REVENUESAYS IT WON'T START RIGHT-AWAY.